Bayern-Olympiakos: Test in Munich for Piraeus

Test in Munich for Olympiakos!

The “red and white” traveled to Germany to face tonight (21:45, Novasports Prime, bwinSPOR FM 94.6, sport-fm.gr) the Bayern Munich in the newly built and full (it has been announced sold-out) “BMW Park”, for the 6th matchday of the Euroleague!

At 3-2 Piraeus, last Thursday (16/10) left Belgrade victorious, smiling in their… thriller against Maccabi Tel Avivafter their ultimate dominance with 95-94! Despite having their backs against the wall and at -13 going into the final stretch of the game, Giorgos Bartzokas’ team found the mental reserves they needed and took advantage of their opponent’s inactivity, taking the victory thanks to the last seconds thanks to a 14-1 run that they “ran”!

Thus, Olympiacos avoided losing twice in a EuroLeague “devil’s week” for the first time, since they had previously lost 82-78 to Effects in SEF. On Sunday, they easily defeated Panionios 81-66 for 3/3 in the Stoiximan GBL, seeing at the same time the Fournier and Walkup to return from the injuries that afflicted them.

However, ahead of tonight’s match a new absence has arisen, with the Papanikolaou to injure the quadriceps in his left leg, and although he was originally scheduled to travel to Germany, he will eventually be protected so that there is not the slightest risk of aggravation. In the top ten for the first time this season, McKissickwhile Evans remains out of action, along with Fal.

“We have to play well; it’s a difficult home, where we lost last year. Bayern play a better defense this year and we have to be absolutely ready to face them. Each time we must face the challenge before us. Bayern this year have bigger bodies on the perimeter and we have to respond to that.”said Giorgos Bartzokas, among others, ahead of tonight’s match.

For Olympiakos, their away game against Mykonos (26/10, 13:00) for the championship, while next week it will host Monaco (29/10, 21:15) and Hapoel Tel Aviv (31/10, 21:15).

As for her Bayernhas a record 2-3 in the Euroleague, while in the German league he has done 3/3. Last week they beat Olympia Milan 64-53 at home and were beaten 88-73 in Istanbul by Fenerbahce, while they have also beaten Red Star, losing to Panathinaikos and Zalgiris. With an elevated psychology after the acquisition of the experienced NBAer, Spencer Dinwiddie, in whom Olympiacos was also interested.

In terms of competition, Dinwiddie will not be included in the starting eleven and is expected to make his debut in next week’s games, while the injured Jokubaitis, Harris and Radanov remain sidelined. Voigtman and Jovic are also injured, but their status will be re-evaluated before the jam.

The referees of tonight’s match will be Mehdi Difala (France), Emilio Perez (Spain) and Thomas Biswell (France).

In the two meetings of the two teams for last season, Bayern had won 84-80 in Munich, while Olympiacos had prevailed with the clearly more imposing 112-69, in the SEF, on the magical night-record of Vezenkov, who had 45 points in that game!